GRE Word List

ROUSING

giving rise to excitement : stirring

The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.

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WordMeaning
scabbarda sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet
dispenseto divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions
clapperone that claps: such as
mysticmystical
tumultdisorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion
prateto talk long and idly : chatter
clandestinemarked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
diversediffering from one another : unlike
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